Every day as soon as the first press of business is over,
the Secretary comes out of his office and taps me on the shoulder, and invites
me to ride with him in quest of a house. We go to those offered for rent; but
he cannot be suited.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 54
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